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  2. Liberty Bell (game) - Wikipedia

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    Created in 1894 by Charles Fey (1862–1944), a car mechanic from San Francisco, the Liberty Bell's popularity set the standard for the modern slot machine; its three-reel model is still used today despite great advances in slot technology over the past several decades.

  3. Charles Fey - Wikipedia

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    Liberty Bell Slot Machine memorial, San Francisco Fey's Liberty Bell slot machine. His father Karl worked as a sexton at the Ulm Minster cathedral and had fifteen children with Charles' mother Maria. [2] As a teenager, Fey worked for a farming tool manufacturer, gaining his first skills, which heavily influenced his career. [3]

  4. Slot machine - Wikipedia

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    Liberty Bell was a huge success and spawned a thriving mechanical gaming device industry. After a few years, the devices were banned in California, but Fey still could not keep up with the demand for them elsewhere. The Liberty Bell machine was so popular that it was copied by many slot machine manufacturers.

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    Hailing from Japan, these digital pets were all the craze in the ’90s. By enabling users to care for a virtual pet, the pocket-sized devices mimicked all the responsibilities of real pet ...

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  7. Mills Novelty Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1907, Herbert S. Mills collaborated with Charles Fey, the inventor of the slot machine, to produce the Mills Liberty Bell. [13] In 1926, the company had moved to a plant of 375,000 square feet (34,800 m 2), comprising a factory and administrative building, at 4100 Fullerton Avenue in the northwest of Chicago. [10]

  8. Bob Gans - Wikipedia

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    After "bell" slot machines were banned over the course of the 1920s and 1930s in various California jurisdictions, they were replaced by pinball machines, which at that time were not games of skill with flippers and lights, but rather "a gambling game, a bingo game, [where] there isn't any play. You put in your nickel and five balls are released.

  9. Liberty Bell (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Liberty Bell, an abolitionist publication from the 1800s; Liberty Bell (game), a 19th-century slot machine; Liberty Bell 7, one of the spacecraft of the Mercury spaceflight program; Liberty Bell Mountain, a mountain in Washington, U.S. Liberty Bell Park Racetrack, a defunct horse racing track in Philadelphia that operated 1963–1986